CENTRO Journal Summer 2025 | Vol. 36 | No. 2,

CENTRO JOURNAL SUMMER 2024 | VOLUME 36 | NUMBER 2

SPECIAL ISSUE: Caudal: Rasanblaj of Contemporary Feminist and Queer/Cuir Perspectives on Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic

Editores invitades / Guest Editors: Celiany Rivera Velázquez and Carlos Ulises Decena

ENSAYOS / ESSAYS

Introduction

Caudal, a Gathering of Abundance

Celiany Rivera Velázquez and Carlos Ulises Decena

Foundational Forces

Magaly Pineda’s Feminist “Agenda Digital”: A Movement for Girls’ Education in Tech in the Dominican Republic

Rachel Afi Quinn

Secreto a voces: tres hitos homoeróticos en literaturas del Caribe hispano

Carlos Vázquez Cruz

Reorienting Paradigms

Cartografías prietas y pajaritud: un recorrido biomitográfico

Jeannette del Carmen Tineo Durán

¿Quién le debe a quién?: A Poetics of Feminist Debt Refusals in Puerto Rico

Zorimar Rivera Montes

Saunatopía: Theorizing Sexual Freedom in the Dominican Republic

Maja Horn

Sonic Bridges

Contrapunteos afrofuturistas: el performance de Ivy Queen y las prácticas escriturales de Mayra Santos Febres y Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro

Zaira Rivera Casellas

Suciedad divina: provocaciones queer y resistencia en la música de Tokischa

Elena Valdez

Queering a Caribbean Sonic Archive: The Voices of Rita Indiana y los Misterios and Mula

Verónica Dávila Ellis

Caribbean Kiki

Caco with a Twist: reflexiones de un caco transmaricón que voguea

Stephan “Mecha Corta” Guzmán

PUTA

María Luisa “Mussa” Marín

Santo Domingo Has Been Burning

Draguéalo

Manifiesto de La Trash

Leilani Dinamita (LuisMi Rodríguez-Rodríguez)

Cuando bailo soy mujer

Edrimael Delgado Reyes

Caribbean Kiki: The Cuir Irreverence of Puerto Rican LaBoriVogue and Dominican Draguéalo

Celiany Rivera Velázquez

Ballrooms and the Sacred Runway: Intimate and Public Lamentations in Cuir Communities of Puerto Rico

Kiana González Cedeño and Ariana Costales Del Toro

BOOK REVIEWS

Cuentos “completos, by Manuel Ramos Otero and edited by Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé

Reviewed by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera

Puerto Rico: A National History, by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo

Reviewed by Francisco Scarano

En mi celda: escritos desde la cárcel, by Martín Sostre and edited by Julio Ramos

Reviewed by Luis Othoniel Rosa

Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977, by Mirelsie Velázquez

Reviewed by Lisa Ortiz-Guzmán